Bonnie, brought up in the cold streets of Oakland, California was born to an absent drug-addicted mother, and ends up being raised by her drug dealer father. Bonnie's world is all of a sudden rocked when her father dies, and she is left all alone. Forced to now fend for herself and no longer being protected by her father, she finds herself lost in the cold streets, getting herself into the worst of situations.

They knew how to love each other. They just never learned how to do it from a distance. ──────── ♡ ──────── Scarlett used to believe that home was a place. Then she met Rowan. For a while, home was Sunday mornings in bed, half-finished conversations over dinner, and the quiet certainty of having someone beside her. It was his laughter from the next room, her clothes mixed with his, and a future that seemed so ordinary neither of them thought to question it. But life has a way of changing things without asking permission. And somewhere between what they had, what they wanted, and what they could no longer give each other, the distance began to feel like more than just miles. ──────── ♡ ──────── Fiction / Contemporary Romance / Emotional Drama YOU WERE MY ALMOST is an original work of fiction. All characters, events, and situations are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. © 2026 María de Melque All rights reserved.

Two introverted souls. One way to find love amid family expectations, professional pressures, and the beauty of quiet love. An ISRO spacecraft engineer. An IISc math professor. A marriage arranged by duty-and bound by quiet desires. Vivienne Francis is the picture-perfect elder daughter: brilliant, fiercely independent, and devoted to her work at ISRO. Accustomed to shouldering expectations alone, the last thing she anticipated was agreeing to an arranged marriage to satisfy her traditional parents. Ethan Samuel, a reserved math professor at IISc Bangalore, navigates his own silent burdens. Quiet, authoritative, and deeply loyal to his family, he enters the arrangement seeking peace, not love.. What happens, when these two highly self-relying, independent, introverted individuals cross their paths in an intricate yet beautifully woven web called marriage? There's something else? Undeniable attraction? In a world of celestial dreams and familial bonds, will their quiet hearts find a way to soar together?

Mara was the one person Nolan Warren could always depend on. Then she died, and the person he used to be seemed to die with her. Sent to rural Wyoming to live with an aunt he barely knows, fifteen-year-old Nolan has no interest in starting over. He's angry, guarded, and convinced that letting people close will only give him someone else to lose. But between new friends, an unfamiliar home, and a boy across the street who refuses to let him suffer in silence, Nolan begins to discover that life might have more to offer than the things he's lost. Cameron is the boy who changes everything. Nolan has to learn to trust him first. My first language is not english but I've had this story in my head for years and I am just now finally writing it down. if you decide to read this awfully written coming of age MLM book, be prepared for how incredibly slowburn it is. This book carries topics that could be sensitive to others, skip the warnings if you dont want spoilers TW: Drug abuse. Underage drinking. Thoughts of self harm. Graphic mentions of death. Child abuse. Gingers. TAGS: #MLM #gay #grief #foundfamily #smalltown #friends #familyissues #daddyissues #siblinggrief #survivorsguilt #PTSD #childtrauma #childhood #gingers #photography #Wyoming #drugabuse #hardtopics #wattpride #teen #drinking #freethelgbt #bxb #slowburn #romance Hi ;3

Vera Sterling was never meant to inherit a kingdom built on grief. After her father's murder shattered her childhood, she learned that a crown demands sacrifice. Now, her kingdom's future rests on a marriage she never wanted. Bound to Eamon Ashbourne to secure her people's protection, Vera must put her own desires aside for the sake of her kingdom. Then, there is Ashford Flamecrest. Cold, arrogant, and dangerously cruel, Ashford bears the name of the very family responsible for her father's death. The Flamecrests and Sterlings have been enemies for as long as Vera can remember, their hatred woven into the histories of their kingdoms and passed down like an inheritance neither can escape. He is the last person she should ever trust. With a kingdom to protect, a marriage looming on the horizon, and a history written in blood standing between them, Vera must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for the future and what she is willing to risk for the one thing she was never supposed to want. There is no room for weakness, and certainly no room for anything that could threaten the future she was raised to protect. Copyright © 2026 by Mxxryrs